Hello Adam and everyone, Thank you for the reply. I've responded below:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:42 PM Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 31/3/21 12:26, Joseph Bishay wrote: > > <snip> > I have BackupPC backing up a Linux client and it appears to only back up > certain files. The pattern seems to be that if the directory has > permissions of -rw-r--r-- BackupPC can enter, read the files and back them > up correctly, but if the directory has permissions of drwx------ it creates > that directory but cannot enter and read the files within it. > > The error log file shows multiple lines of: > Remote[1]: rsync: opendir "/directory/with/files" failed: Permission > denied (13) > > Other parts of the filesystem are being backed up correctly it appears. > The BackupPC automatically connects as the user BackupPC on the client and > that backupPC user has the ability to run rsync as root. On the client I > have: > > $ cat /etc/sudoers.d/backuppc giving: > backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync > backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/whoami #added this one for debugging > > From BackupPC running the command: > ssh -l backuppc client_IP "whoami" > returns backuppc > > and running the command > ssh -l backuppc client_IP "sudo whoami" > returns root > > so it seems to be working correctly. > > In the client config file on BackupPC, variable is set as: > RsyncClientCmd = "$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc $host $rsyncPath $argList+" > > Aren't you missing a sudo somewhere in the command? not sure how you have > defined rsyncPath, but that looks like it could be the issue. > > Maybe you could post the logs which will show the actual commands being > run after variable expansion. > > Regards, > Adam > I am not sure if there should be a sudo somewhere or how that works unfortunately - I do not understand this very well. rsyncClientPath is defined as: /usr/bin/rsync It appears rsync is working since I am getting part of the drive backed up, just not certain folders. The Xferlog file shows: Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/client_IP/XferLOG.0.z, modified 2021-03-28 21:25:06 full backup started for directory / Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l backuppc client_IP /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . / Xfer PIDs are now 13133 Got remote protocol 31 Negotiated protocol version 28 Sent exclude: /var/tmp Sent exclude: /tmp Sent exclude: /mnt Sent exclude: /media Sent exclude: /sys Sent exclude: /proc Sent exclude: /run Sent exclude: /dev Sent exclude: /lost+found Sent exclude: /var/cache Sent exclude: /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default Sent exclude: /pagefile.sys Sent exclude: /hiberfil.sys Sent exclude: /$Recycle.Bin Sent exclude: /WINDOWS/Temp Sent exclude: /RECYCLER Sent exclude: /home/*/.cache Then many lines of: Remote[1]: rsync: opendir "/some/folder/" failed: Permission denied (13) example: Remote[1]: rsync: send_files failed to open "/var/log/auth.log": Permission denied (13) Then several thousand lines of pool and create as it backs up. That's it. Please let me know what you think or if you need more information. Thank you, Joseph
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